SEC. 5-1-41. Remuneration of legislators.
Beginning with the 1986 Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, each Senator and Representative of the Legislature shall receive as compensation at each regular session the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and the mileage allowance provided by Section 25-3-41, for each mile of the distance by the most direct route usually traveled in coming to and returning from the place where the Legislature sits; and shall receive for attending each extraordinary session or called session the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day and mileage at the same rate as per regular session. In addition to the above, each Senator and Representative shall receive the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00) per month for expenses incidental to his office for every full month of his term, except any month or major fraction thereof when the Legislature is convened in regular or extraordinary session; and payments shall be made to each Senator and Representative by the State Treasurer between the first and tenth day of each month following the month for which said payments are due.
SOURCES: Codes, 1930, Sec. 5348; 1942, Sec. 3345; Laws, 1928, ch. 297; 1932, ch. 260; 1933, ch. 151; 1946, ch. 198; 1950, ch. 456; 1956, ch. 357, Sec. 1; 1958, ch. 521, Sec. 1; 1960, ch. 327; 1966, ch. 436, Sec. 1; 1972, ch. 356, Sec. 1, 1974, ch. 531, Sec. 1; 1985, ch. 409, Sec. 1; 1988, ch. 490, eff from and after July 1, 1988.
1997 Amendment:
SECTION 6. Section 5-1-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
[Until December 31, 1999, this section shall read as follows:]
5-1-41. Beginning with the 1986 Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, each Senator and Representative of the Legislature shall receive as compensation at each regular session the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and the mileage allowance provided by Section 25-3-41, for each mile of the distance by the most direct route usually traveled in coming to and returning from the place where the Legislature sits. Beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative shall receive for attending each extraordinary session or called session the sum of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per day and mileage at the same rate as per regular session. In addition to the above, beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative shall receive the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per month for expenses incidental to his office for every full month of his term, except any month or major fraction thereof when the Legislature is convened in regular or extraordinary session; and payments shall be made to each Senator and Representative by the State Treasurer between the first and tenth day of each month following the month for which the payments are due. However, no Senator or Representative may receive the increase in the expense allowance established under this section as provided for in House Bill No. 1032, 1997 Regular Session, unless the Senator or Representative signs and files a written request for the increase with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives before July 1, 1997.
[From and after January 1, 2000, this section shall read as follows:]
5-1-41. Beginning with the 1986 Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, each Senator and Representative of the Legislature shall receive as compensation at each regular session the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and the mileage allowance provided by Section 25-3-41, for each mile of the distance by the most direct route usually traveled in coming to and returning from the place where the Legislature sits. Beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative shall receive for attending each extraordinary session or called session the sum of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per day and mileage at the same rate as per regular session. In addition to the above, beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant Governor shall receive the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per month for expenses incidental to his office for every full month of his term, except any month or major fraction thereof when the Legislature is convened in regular or extraordinary session; and payments shall be made to each Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant Governor by the State Treasurer between the first and tenth day of each month following the month for which the payments are due. However, no Senator, Representative or the Lieutenant Governor may receive the increase in the expense allowance established under this section as provided for in House Bill No. 1032, 1997 Regular Session, unless the Senator, Representative or the Lieutenant Governor signs and files a written request for the increase with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives before July 1, 1997. In the event the Lieutenant Governor serving on the effective date of House Bill No. 1032, 1997 Regular Session, shall be re-elected for the term beginning in the year 2000, he shall not be eligible to receive the out-of-session monthly expense allowance authorized under this section.
SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 577, Sec. 6, HB1032, Voting Rights Act.
Note: 1997 Laws, Chapter 577, Sec. 10, states as follows:
SECTION 10. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi is hereby directed to submit Sections 1 and 3 through 9 of this act, immediately upon approval by the Governor, or upon approval by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, to the Attorney General of the United States or to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.